The Obama administration has been collecting the phone records of millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top secret court order, according to a British newspaper report which raised new and troubling privacy questions.

While the administration defended its authority to seize phone records -- and stressed that it does not monitor calls -- one civil liberties group called this the "broadest surveillance order to ever have been issued."

One more scandal and one more piss stain on the Constitution. Every morning it's something new. It won't stop.

and one more reason to tell our kids to NOT post anything on the net. they'll never, ever be able to run for office or call someone out in the future as their electronic past will always be there to haunt them!!!!!

and one more reason to tell our kids to NOT post anything on the net. they'll never, ever be able to run for office or call someone out in the future as their electronic past will always be there to haunt them!!!!!

Yeah right, 100 years ago they told kids you had to have morals, respect and have to born in America to be president. Oh, and if you want to have money you need to work for it. A lot of good that did.

think of businesses emailing and phoning about take-over strategies, new product development, IPO development or someone trying to invent something and get it patented before anyone else.

then think about gov't snooping on communications and the impact they can have on the above when intercepting communications above these topics.

and the IRS, if they ever sober up from their confrences! OMG! OMG!

but then SHOULD we worry if with all this snooping the gov't can't track/nail illegal citizens, or track visitors who overstay their student visas, or find the guy who supposedly leaked this PRISM story to begin with (opps, he was in Hong Kong according to the media [Hong Kong: a small, low profile, port city in CHINA,,,,?????....go figure] but now {6/11/13} he's gone "missing")?